10.5: Keep 'Apple Mail To Do' off IMAP accounts in Mail

Jan 22, '09 07:30:02AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Do you dislike the "Apple Mail To Do" entry in your IMAP mail account in Mail? Disabling this 'feature' has been claimed many times in many places, but I finally found a way that actually works:

  1. Quit Mail
  2. open ~/Library » Preferences » com.apple.mail.plist using Property List Editor.
  3. Scroll down to the Mail Accounts entry and open it (click the arrow to the left of it).
  4. Click the arrow to the left of Item 1.
  5. Make sure the AccountType is LocalAccount (if it's not, one of the other Items is, but it should be Item 1).
  6. Copy the string value of the uniqueId field (the string of letters and numbers and dashes).
  7. Scroll down to the NewNoteToDoAccount entry, and paste the local account ID string in as its value.
Be sure you delete the folder/label on the IMAP server, too. Launch Mail.app, and you'll no longer see Apple Mail To Do in your IMAP account.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one yet, but will definitely do so later today! The presence of that item is one of my personal pet peeves in 10.5.]

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